97. Change
The world is difficult, so people age very quickly.
If we really want to talk about age, Wang Dang is only 31 years old this year. He married Ahe in the early spring of the year when he was twenty. He got a son in the winter, which is Wang Shao.
Tu Er got married several years earlier than him. Now his eldest son, Xu Ling, is fifteen years old, and the second is a daughter. This year, he is fourteen years old. There is also a youngest son who is the same age as Wang Shao, Xu Ling, twelve years old.
When it comes to young men who are about the same age as his second daughter, Wang Dangtou thought of him was Xu Dalang's eldest son, who was fifteen years old this year, with a good appearance and a very responsible person.
If you want to discuss family, then the Tu family needs to be betrothed to the Xu family. It is indeed a bit reluctant. The business of the Xu family's guest house is now booming, and it is also relying on the big tree of Luo Sanlang. As long as there are no natural disasters and man-made disasters, his family's life will definitely be better and better.
But getting married and marrying a virtuous person is a little richer and weaker. What's so important? Wang Dang just thinks that anyway. From his perspective, Tu Erniang is diligent and gentle, and it is definitely not wrong to marry her home as a daughter-in-law, but I don't know what the Xu family thinks.
After collecting all the mulberries, he went to a familiar house to find some red dates. Wang Dang and his group returned to Lishi County.
On this day, Luo Yong and his disciples were scattering grass seeds on the ground. Seeing Wang Dang and others pushing a few wooden carts from afar, they finished the work on hand in a few seconds, packed up the farm tools, and walked with Wang Dang and the others.
I haven't seen each other for a few days, and everyone is very happy now. They talk about gossip along the way, but the laughter never stopped.
I don’t know if the population is particularly sparse in this era, so it seems particularly precious or why it is easy to build feelings between people.
After living here for a while, Wang Dang and others have been here, they always come back from outside and see Luo Yong, his disciples or villagers in Xipo Village, as if they see their family members. They look very friendly and feel very safe.
Luo Yong and the others were similar. If one day he heard that Wang Destiny failed to come back on the expected date, he would inevitably feel a little worried, afraid that they would meet bad guys and robbers.
In this era, there are wilderness ridges everywhere, and there are not many people. A few people are walking outside. If they are harmed by evil people, there will be no place to look for them.
Along the way, we came to the Xu family's guesthouse with a chat and laughter. As soon as the oil-slag buns were out of the cage that evening, twenty or thirty old men rushed into the store, occupying half of the hall, without any other words, each of them first received a big bun.
The Xu family’s big buns cost three per cent, and two per cent is six. The hot buns are served one by one. The men were also hungry and grabbed them with their hands and ate them. They ate them all so delicious.
Luo Yong ordered a few more cold dishes here. His disciples also made a day's work for him today. For example, when he didn't treat him, who would treat him if he didn't treat him.
"If you don't dislike this dumpling soup, there will be better in the back." Aunt Luo and Lin Wulang came up with a tray each, which contained bowls of snow-white dumpling soup.
The dumplings made by the couple are now well-known in this place. If the dumplings are cooked more, the soup will naturally be increased. The couple are reluctant to pour them out and drink them a lot. There are also adults and children in the Xu family who are thirsty and go there to drink them. It tastes more delicious than water and is also nourishing.
"There is no place to dislike it? This is the soup made from fine white flour." It's a bit dry to eat buns just. At this time, a hot soup is just right. It's all poor families, so who can still dislike it?
Luo Yong also joined them and ate buns with dumpling soup. After a while, a few plates of hot and cold dishes were served, and the atmosphere in the hall became even warmer.
"This time we are at Mengmen Pass, we heard that someone has made soap on the northern grassland, and the price is the same as ours, and it costs five cents a dollar."
"I heard that some merchants were bargaining with them, but the Hu people heard from somewhere that the soap we had on our side was sold for 5 cents per dollar, and they also wanted to sell for 5 cents per dollar. They bit them to death and refused to sell it at all."
"This time you ship this batch of soap to Dinghu, how much does it cost to sell?" Luo Yong asked them.
"Twelve cents a dollar." Wang Dang replied.
It is not close to the grassland from Mengmenguan. Besides, those Hu people have just learned how to make soap. Who knows how good the soap they made at this time is? Where is the soap produced by the Luo family stable and reliable? Even if the price is higher, some merchants are willing to buy it.
Speaking of which, this soap transaction is really profitable. They can make the profits of several times this time, but the oil is too difficult to acquire.
"When you pack up the fields over there, how many days will you have to raise pigs?" The Yang Dalang asked the Xu brothers and others and said.
"It should be necessary." Not only do you raise pigs, but also chickens and geese.
I didn't eat this meal for too long. I was tired all day long. Now that I have filled my stomach, I naturally have to wash and rest.
Luo Yong returned to the Luo family yard and checked the number of mulberries and red dates with Wang Dang and others, and asked them to help move the batch of goods to the warehouse behind, and then paid the payment for the goods. That night, he would start making mulberry soap.
"I have been doing farm work in the fields for a day today, why do I need to make soap at night?" Erniang saw Luo Yong take out some white powder and mix lye in the yard, so she knew that he wanted to make soap again tonight.
This alkali will smell strange when it comes to water. Sanlang Yan's smell will easily get sick. Usually, when doing this, they are in a ventilated place in the yard, and they are not allowed to get close to the children at home.
"I collected two batches of grass seeds in the past two days and asked them to join the team again. The merchants later became a little confused."
Luo used a custom-made ceramic rod to stir the alkali liquid in the jar, which slowed down the speed of alkali addition. When the alkali reacted with water, the temperature could rise a lot at once. Therefore, you have to take it slowly every time you add this solution, and you can't hurry.
"Or I'll do it." Erniang said.
"Just go to bed, I'll go to bed later tomorrow." Luo Yong said indifferently. It's nothing to stay up all night for him. Besides, it's not enough to stay up all night, and it doesn't even need to be used in the middle of the night. His soap making equipment is very useful, and he has accumulated a lot of experience now, so the soap making speed is much faster than before.
As a result, Luo Yong had just started to move here, Erniang and Peng Er came together. The two of them moved a small stool, sat at the door of the soap making room, and cleaned the soap mold with bamboo sticks.
When the soap was released before, some of them had not taken off well, and some soap crumbs got stuck in the abrasive tool. Occasionally, one or two of them did not make it too tight. If there were too many, it wouldn't work. The whole batch of soap was not ready, so the soap mold also had to be cleaned regularly.
After cleaning a batch of soap molds, they took off the batch of soap prepared two days ago, and also cleaned the batch of soap molds.
After doing these things, Erniang said she was hungry again and cooked some ginger with Peng Er to eat. Peng Er took a few bites of it himself and replaced Luo Yong and asked him to eat some ginger first.
Luo Yong sat at the door with a bowl of ginger and ate bites. In the room, Peng Erzheng pushed the mixer round by circle, while Erniang added firewood under the stove.
In the pottery, the large pot uses dried mulberries soaked with juice soaked in dried mulberries as the soap liquid in process. It is purple and red and has a pink and white color. It looks much brighter than mugwort soap and smells better. It should be loved by female users.
After the saponification reaction was completed, the three of them surrounded the pottery and scooped the soap liquid from the pot with a water scoop to pour it into the mold. In a short while, the large pot of soap liquid was poured into the mold and placed neatly on the shelves beside the wall.
With the help of her and the others, Luo used it very easily that night.
Luo Yong used to do everything by himself. After coming here, a large group of brothers and sisters suddenly appeared, and some things began to become very different.
For example, like tonight, I thought I was staying up late by myself, but Er Niang and the others came to help.
To be honest, he doesn't hate working alone. He actually enjoys the night of working alone. He originally thought he would be a little repulsive about Er Niang and the others, but the opposite was the opposite. He enjoyed the fact that someone cared about him and was happy to make work easier.
This surprised him a little. Luo Yong used to believe that people would not change, but now it seems that he might have thought it was wrong.
Or maybe, he is not so introverted in nature. The so-called introvertedness is just a shield used to protect himself.
However, a real strong man does not need to hide behind a shield.
He doesn't have to avoid those false harms in a way that doesn't have expectations for anyone.
Luo Yong was lying on the kang without burning fire with a thin quilt. Outside the window was his square backyard. In the sky of the backyard, there were stars everywhere. The night wind blew on his cheeks with the stars, which was very cool.
That night, in this desolate and warm world, Luo Yong once again felt that he had grown up.
Growth is a different process for everyone.
Just like the small trees he planted on the hillside outside, if he took good care of them, they would thrive year by year.
Some small trees are very lucky, and they are very healthy when they are lucky and are planted on fertile land, so those small trees grow very smoothly. Some small trees are very lucky and are injured for various reasons, so growth becomes an extremely difficult thing for them.
On that hillside, some small trees looked dry, but Luo Yong was not willing to dig a single one.
Chapter completed!